"... and my textures and colors went away" Odd, I've never seen that happen - I often export textured assemblages and re-import to eliminate accidental click-misalignments when assembling complex scenes, and done the same with textured groupings of clothed characters, exporting and then re-imported them to cut down on use of system resources. One pic I did needed 7 clothed figures, and 3 MilDragons ( the "Child is born" pic in my gallery ), and I found that converting two of the dragons into posed props, and converting the posed mother and children grouping into one prop made framing and assembling the final picture much simpler and less demanding on system resources. That was in P4, and never lost a single texture on re-importing, or even on re-loading as props in later sessions. I find OBJ the best format, too, btw.